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A VERY FINE BLUE AND WHITE
TANKARD
Chongzhen
The cylindrical vessel of tapering form, boldly
painted around the exterior in vibrant tones
of cobalt-blue with a continuous scene of
a scholar with a fan by a gnarled taihu rock
with two young boy attendants approaching,
carrying a goose and a box and cover, all
amidst a balustraded garden setting with
mountains in the distance, between foliate
borders at the foot and mouth, applied with a
loop handle decorated with lotus.
21.5cm (8 1/2in) high.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY49,000 - 65,000

明崇禎 青花執杯
Provenance:
Blitz Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art,
Amsterdam, 22 June 1993
來源：
阿姆斯特丹古董商 Blitz Oriental Ceramics
and Works of Art，1993年6月22日

The Dutch sent stoneware tankards to
Jingdezhen from Cologne in Germany in
1635 to serve as models for these Dutch
market tankards, of which there are extant
examples. See a similar blue and white
tankard decorated with a scholar, Chongzhen,
illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen
Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the
Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment,
Shanghai, 2005, pp.322-323, no.121.
See also a related blue and white tankard,
1635-1645, but decorated with a foreigner,
illustrated by J.Ayer, Chinese and Japanese
Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty
the Queen, vol.1, London, 2016, p.124,
no.238.
Compare with a related silver-mounted
blue and white tankard, Chongzhen, which
was sold at Christie's New York, An Era of
Inspiration: 17th Century Chinese Porcelains
from the Collection of Julia and John Curtis,
16 March 2015, lot 3511.

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